Thursday, February 14th 2008
All GeForce 8 Cards to Gain PhysX Engine Support Says NVIDIA
Video card giant NVIDIA, which completed the acquisition of AGEIA Technologies the day before, is now starting to port AGEIA's PhysX engine software to run on its GeForce 8 cards, according to The Tech Report. During a financial call, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hseun Huang revealed that the ported engine will bring enhanced physics capabilities to all of the company's existing GeForce 8 cards.
Source:
The Tech Report
We're working toward the physics-engine-to-CUDA port as we speak. And we intend to throw a lot of resources at it. You know, I wouldn't be surprised if it helps our GPU sales even in advance of [the port's completion]. The reason is, [it's] just gonna be a software download. Every single GPU that is CUDA-enabled will be able to run the physics engine when it comes... Every one of our GeForce 8-series GPUs runs CUDA.Huang also added that the integration shall encourage people to spend more on graphics processing hardware, and maybe start to buy two or three graphics cards, where one of them will work for physics only.
64 Comments on All GeForce 8 Cards to Gain PhysX Engine Support Says NVIDIA
All so funny way it about a year ago they were saying there Physics were better than lol.
and also the PhysX cards where pci, that was shown to be abottle neck in many/most systems the chip just really needs pci-e
and musscles cpu's CANT do true phsyx calc , they arent designed for it in real time, gpu's shader units are more suited to that work as are the aegna(Sp) ppu cards, tho they where a poor design so they fail it.
It needs to be:
*Part of the game, works fine via software (if a little slow on max physics, a la fear)
*PHYSICS, not GRAWS 'random debris' - we want interactivity and detail, not useless FPS wasters
PCI was a killer for Ageias cards. GPU can take over, its fancy shaders can do this a lot quicker than a CPU, for a lot less performance loss
really it would be nice if they made a pci-e 1x 8x00 goy that could be used as a pure ppu when gaming and that could work with other companys products as well.
they wanted to offer cards like the 1300 and even 1600 range for pci-e 1x as PPU's that could also work in Media pc's as an upgrade(since many of them need low profile cards it would likely have een 64bit memory...but thats still plenty for most 1300 uses)